Anton Sherwood, bronto@pobox.com, http://www.ogre.nu
41 Sutter Street #1143, San Francisco, California 94104

Dropout and dabbler looking for a second chance.


history
1977-81:  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- B.S. Mathematics and Computer Science
- 3 semesters physics
- worked two years as grader/tutor, helping students with their CS assignments
- represented UIUC in College Bowl, a team quiz-game

1981 Nov - 1984 Dec:  Spacelabs (Squibb Medical Systems), Chatsworth, Calif.  
Designed, coded & debugged real-time firmware for several networked Z80-based 
cardiac monitoring products (each using a different multitasking scheme).  
When one project overflowed its ROM bounds, I found enough redundancy in 
my teammates' Pascal code to shorten it by one part in six.  (Most of my
own code was written in assembler.)

1986 Feb - 1987 Jan : VeriFone, Redwood City, Calif.  Designed, coded & 
debugged firmware for a printer, using single-chip controllers (6502, 8051); 
cross-developed using HMI emulator.  The printer, a pin-impact device using 
stepper motors, was intended to mimic those gadgets (what were they called, 
anyway?) that took impressions of credit cards, including machine-readable 
digits.  It never came to market, so far as I know, being already obsolete.

Laid off for a second time, and paralyzed by depression (undiagnosed),
I said to hell with it and renounced all hope of an engineering career.

1987-present : office work, mostly wordprocessing for lawyers (though
on one job, in 1988-9, I learned to lay out printed circuits by hand).
I'd rather be in some field with real customers and a sense of
cumulative progress, but lawfirms pay best.
I continue to write code for my own entertainment, such as
a search for hypothetical fullerenes.

2002 November: took a course, "Unix System Administration I/II"
at Muster Learning Architects, Berkeley.


miscellany
Fairly fluent French, Esperanto; have studied several other languages.  
Interests include mathematics, music, architecture, law and economics.